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Best suit for the office

Whats in fashion now? Two-, three- or four-button suits? Are two buttons coming back? What is most suitable for the office?

In the late 90s, three buttons took the mens-fashion world by storm after a thirty-year absence. Two buttons, however, has remained the boardroom standard. Today the two-button seems to be making a fashion comeback, probably as an alternative to the pervasiveness of three buttons. In recent pictures of President Bush with Prime Minister Blair, Blair seems to be wearing a higher-cut two-button that is perhaps a compromise between the two-button power suit and the modernist three-button. It could be the best compromise Blair ever made. Either two or three is perfectly acceptable for office wear, unless one works at ESPN, in which case four buttons is also acceptable.